northern side of the cold side of the storm you can see how heavy the snow is right now, kansas city snowfall rates about two inches an hour heavy snow in joplin and that's headed toward the northeast during the day today and we expect some pretty significant snowfall totals today in that area. as we look at that map you could see the purple areas, that's where we expect to see another about a foot of snow on top of what we have already. in chicago probably in general around six inches of snowfall. the good news for the major cities of the northeast, shouldn't be a big deal mostly rain but north and west of there into upstate new york and the mountains of vermont and new hampshire we could see up to a foot of snowfall. the moral of the story is tough traveling today and tough traveling tomorrow. >> jeff thanks. >>> three days left before huge automatic spending cuts hit the nation. pew research poll shows more than six out of ten americans think cuts will have a negative effect on the economy. >> if they come nearly half of those surveyed say they will blame republicans, just over a